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Drugs are they the answer ?
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He rails against "losers" taking "drugs" and suggests instead they take a day off and have a few beers.
Alcohol is by far and away the most abused drug in this country, responsible for 10 times as much cost to the health care system as all illegal drugs combined. (source: Irish Times report on the health costs in this country circa 6 months ago.)
It is rivaled only by that other "legal" drug nicotine.
Its a testament to the power of marketing that people simply ignore the fact that it is
C2H5OH, a chemical which passes the blood brain barrier and wreaks havoc with the structure of the brain if abused, can box the liver, pancreas and kidneys irredeemably. It has severe temporary withdrawal effects even after moderate usage.
In short, its the (stereo)typical opinion held by "clean" Irishmen who would "box the head off their son if they found them doing drugs". Expressed while ordering another round and nipping out for a quick fag cos they're "gasping".
I'm not a prude. I drink, I've smoked more then my fair share of weed (and most likely your share too, in fact
), but I cant abide the self delusion that booze is anything more then a drug. And a powerful one at that.
Look, Hicks said all this better then I can.
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this thread is lame - no-one tells the truth:
average poker session (8 hrs)
10 coffee's
40 smokes
5/6 spliffs
1/4 oz coke
1 box solphadine
12 bottles beer (the big ones from lidl)
if running hot - more coke and maybe a hooker (or 2 if im killing 10/20+)
if running cold - 12 more beers and 20 more smokes
that's what it takes to be the best gentlemen...excercice? LOL
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Seems like a very badly concealed sly dig there. I could just as easily say something just as random about you, but thankfully have the maturity not to.
Sigh. It was the opposite, I think your comments were being attacked somewhat unfairly. You should have read it as "to be fair he is pretty young", which you are, you wrote recently about coming back from discos. If I'm wrong about your age then God help you 0 -
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Sigh. It was the opposite, I think your comments were being attacked somewhat unfairly. You should have read it as "to be fair he is pretty young", which you are, you wrote recently about coming back from discos. If I'm wrong about your age then God help you
"To be fair he is pretty young", Oh golly kind sir! Thank you for jumping to my defence. Yes, I'm an innocent idiot, but since I'm only 14 you can forgive me. I'm off now to play with my action men.
Hotspur, you also wrote that you'd rather take a shot of heroin once a week than take 20 pints and 10 fags once a week because it does less damage to you . Look, I'll admit, I don't know much about the physical damage, you're probably right. But I'm guessing since you're knowledgable enough about the subject to make such an outlandish statement that you've first hand experience with heroin? You've used the substance before and know about all the psychological and addiction problems it causes. No? Didn't think so, because if you did, you'd know that no body does one shot of heroin a week. You don't see people clocking off work and saying 'Ah great Friday at last! Time for my weekly hit of heroin! Can't wait!, You know it's HEALTHIER than pints'. That's because heroin doesn't work like that, heroin is 4 time more addictive than Morphine, that's a FACT. Whereas a lot of people go for their Friday evening pints to unwind and for the social aspect, out of choice, not out of addiction (although many of them ARE addicted, I know this).
Growing up I had a mate who was one of the most intelligent and soundest lads I ever knew, he was also batsh!t crazy. He was always going on about opiates and how great they were. Thought it was soo hypocritical that drinkers (he rarely drank, but smoked dope 24/7) could look down their nose at him because they were doing more damage to their organs, shortening their lives etc. He never injected either only sniffed them. I obviously never tried them myself, I barely drank/smoked dope. Well, after the leaving I fell out of contact with him, would see him around town the odd time, his he always looked dog rough, his story would always be the same, "not working, looking to start back in college next year", any job he got he wouldn't last more than a month at (he got nearly 500 in the leaving), and hung around with absolute LOSERS. Want to know where he is now? He's in JAIL. I'm not making this up, he's in jail because of heroin, so don't tell me that a shot of heroin is healtier than a few pints.
If you want to read more about what addiction problems and trouble your 'one shot of heroin' will cause you. Read this.
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But I'm guessing since you're knowledgable enough about the subject to make such an outlandish statement that you've first hand experience with heroin? You've used the substance before and know about all the psychological and addiction problems it causes. No? Didn't think so, because if you did, you'd know that no body does one shot of heroin a week.
I'll put it down to negative variance that you happened to say that to the one guy on this forum who is a psychologist and whose expertise is addiction. Bad beat. But just so you know people can and do use heroin once a week unproblematically, we have known this for decades since the research on the returning US soldiers from Vietnam who picked up using the drug there. Also heroin is a pretty clean drug, it's just that virtually zero heroin addicts just stick to heroin, they are all polydrug users. Of course you won't read this in any general media, because drugs are bad kids! It wasn't until I did a postgraduate degree in addiction that I realised just how misinformed I had been about drugs, the reality is very different to the propaganda.
So there ye go, Dr Hotspur recommends heroin, good for what ails ye!
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I'll put it down to negative variance that you happened to say that to the one guy on this forum who is a psychologist and whose expertise is addiction. Bad beat. But just so you know people can and do use heroin once a week unproblematically, we have known this for decades since the research on the returning US soldiers from Vietnam who picked up using the drug there. Also heroin is a pretty clean drug, it's just that virtually zero heroin addicts just stick to heroin, they are all polydrug users. Of course you won't read this in any general media, because drugs are bad kids! It wasn't until I did a postgraduate degree in addiction that I realised just how misinformed I had been about drugs, the reality is very different to the propaganda.
So there ye go, Dr Hotspur recommends heroin, good for what ails ye!
OK, look I can't argue with that, you're the expert. My experience with heroin has been very very limited, but at the same time it's also been very very negative. Maybe I'm plain ignorant, but if I saw a family member or close friend of mine deciding to take a shot of heroin, I'd do everything I could to strongly discourage them, much more so than if I saw them drinking a pint or with a cigarette in their hand, and I'd hope you'd be the same, despite of what you've been educated.0
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